VM Sereni participates at the Fourth Edition of the Women’s Forum of MED Dialogues 2020
“From the speeches heard during this Forum, which is now four years old, two truly important messages emerge: on the one hand, the need to promote the economic emancipation of women in the context of the pandemic and beyond, and on the other, how to increase the role of women in peace-building”. This was stated […]
Read more3 December – International Day of Persons with Disabilities
Proclaimed in 1992 by United Nations General Assembly Resolution 47/3, the International Day of Persons with Disabilities represents an important moment for the promotion of the rights of persons with disabilities with a view to further enhance their participation in the political, economic, social and cultural life of our society. Within the United Nations framework, […]
Read morePresident of the Council of Ministers Giuseppe Conte inaugurates the Italian G20
The Italian G20 Presidency has, officially, just begun. Italy stands ready for the intense year ahead of us. It is our common responsibility to address the important global challenges we are facing. And to build – today – the world of tomorrow, in order to hand our children a better Planet. Italy will live up […]
Read moreDG of IOM, Antonio Vitorino at MED2020 Dialogue:
Five years after the 2015 ‘refugee crisis’, migration remains a significant political and humanitarian issue in the Euro-Mediterranean region. The COVID-19 pandemic exposed many of the longstanding deficiencies of current international migration governance. Regular migration pathways shrank to a minimum, the economic shock hit origin and transit countries hard, and the two forces combined heightened […]
Read moreVice Minister Emanuela Del Re opens the forum on ”The Health-Nutrition-Agriculture Nexus in the Mediterranean”
Vice Minister Del Re opened the forum on “The Health-Nutrition-Agriculture Nexus in the Mediterranean” with the Director of the Mediterranean Agronomic Institute – CIHEAM – of Bari, Maurizio Raeli. The forum will be closed by the Director-General for Development Cooperation at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Giorgio Marrapodi. Follow live: https://youtu.be/FVqPekuV-RU
Read moreMinister Di Maio: satisfaction for Grandi’s renewal of mandate at UNHCR
The Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation expressed great satisfaction with the renewal of Filippo Grandi’s mandate as UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) for the January 2021 – June 2023 period. “This renewal of mandate is a recognition of the excellent work carried out by Filippo Grandi in recent years and of his […]
Read moreIntervention of the Permanent Representative of Italy to the 111th session of the Council of the International Organization for Migration (IOM).
The Permanent Representative of Italy to the UN and other International Organizations in Geneva, Ambassador Gian Lorenzo Cornado, delivered his statement to the IOM’s Council session, at the presence of the Director General, Antonio Vitorino. Ambassador Cornado highlighted the great challenges we are facing today due to the COVID-19 pandemic, calling it “a health emergency […]
Read moreNew WHO Communication Campaign “We Are #InThisTogether
TheWorld Health Organization today launched a new communication partner to continue to promote Science, Solutions and Solidarity in response to the COVID-19 pandemic entitled “We Are #InThisTogether”. The campaign was launched in conjunction with the work of the World Health Assembly to show how, as humanity faces a common threat, communicating the main measures to […]
Read moreItaly at the Board of Directors of the ILO
The Permanent Representative of Italy to the International Organizations, Gian Lorenzo Cornado, has delivered today a statement on behalf of the Group of the Industrialized Market Economy Countries (IMEC) at the 340 Session of the Governing Body of the International Labour Organizazion. Ambassador Cornado’s intervention supports the activities of the ILO International Training Centre-ITC of […]
Read moreDel Re: a multidimensional response to the Covid pandemic at the centre of the G20 Presidency agenda
Vice Minister Del Re participated, in VTC, in the 2nd High Level Meeting of the Facilitation Council of ACT – the Access to COVID-19 Tools Accelerator – convened by the Norwegian Development Minister and the South African Health Minister. The aim of the meeting was to provide an update on the state-of-the-art of the diagnostics, […]
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